GREAT BRITAIN: The New Cabinet

Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee all
but completed his Government. But he had had to scrape the Labor Party
barrel for experienced talent.

By week's end the ministerial list (senior and junior) numbered 68. At
least 23 of 30 senior appointees had held public office before, most of
them in Parliament. Nine of them are ex-miners. Only two attended Eton,
only 13 went to college. Their average age was 60three years older
than the Churchill Cabinet average and 20 years older than the new
Labor M.P. average. Outstanding among the new appointments: